About July 1
July 1, 2024 is the 183rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 212 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
July 1: More About This Day
The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in a leap year.
What Happened On July 1
- 1569 –Union of Lublin: the Kingdom of Poland and the Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
- 1837 –A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
- 1862 –American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign.
- 1863 –American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
- 1863 –Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
- 1879 –Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
- 1885 –The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
- 1890 –Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
- 1911 –Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
- 1916 –World War I: First day on the Somme – On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
- 1935 –Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
- 1942 –World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
- 1958 –Flooding of Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
- 1962 –Independence of Rwanda.
- 1967 –Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
- 1972 –The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
- 1981 –The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
- 1990 –German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
- 1997 –China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
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